Dr. Emily Howard Stowe(née Jennings). Born Norwich, Upper Canada (Ontario) May 1, 1831.
Died April 30, 1903. A life long champion of women’s rights, she began
her working career as a teacher at the age of fifteen. She would go on to
become the first woman principal of a Canadian school. After marriage and
three children, she decided to study medicine, but with no Canadian
institution allowing women to study medicine, she was forced to study in
the United States. She became the first Canadian woman to practice
medicine in Canada. It was she who organized the Women’s Medical College
in Toronto in 1883. A vigorous advocate of votes for women, and equality
for women, she founded, and was the first president of, the Dominion
Women’s Enfranchisement Association in 1889.